Saturday, January 2, 2010

New Year, Old Friends

Happy 2010! It is still unbelievable to me that it actually is 2010. Wasn't Y2K not that long ago? Oh right, it was a decade ago. Wow.

We rung in the new decade with Jess, Jason, and Sammy who came to visit from Korea (where yes, they do eat dog, but only one variety). Jess and I last spent New Year's together in 2004ish at Big Boulder Lake singing karaoke with the Gallo fam. She's our first home friend to see where we live. It was so fun having her here and meeting her beautiful family, but was also kind of like one of those dreams where all these people you know from all different places are suddenly all together in the same place. Someone from Genesee here in NZ? It messed with my head a little.

Mildly disappointing that there was no karaoke to be had this year (Jess does a mean version of Tina Turner's Proud Mary). But we tried to make up for it with tipis, pizza making, and surfing.

All Native North Americans, except Sammy. She's a Native Korean.

Holy giant fern leaf!

Venturing down jungle paths with a stroller is exhausting.

Happiest baby ever. Talia Hardie may be her best competition for smiliest baby.

2 comments:

Thanks for posting those and hope you are feeling better! It was sooo great to have world's collide and has given us some serious considerations to make...so depending on how long you guys are gonna be there and how long we need to get our stuff together we just may be meeting again...And again really good to see you guys and I am impressed, proud and inspired by your ideas!PS Can you put the pix on facebook so I can share them